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27847: KOSANBA Colloquium VII (fwd)
From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD:
KOSANBA
International Colloquium VII
The Congress of Santa Barbara
(The scholarly association for the study of Haitian Vodou)
MARCH 31st and APRIL 1st, 2006
Charles H. Wright Museum
of African American History
Detroit, Michigan 48201
Special number: 313-494-5816
co-sponsors/hosts:
* Department of Anthropoloy
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
* Centre for Religion and Culture
Assumption University, Windsor, Canada
The Congress of Santa Barbara (KOSANBA), the scholarly association
for the study of Haitian Vodou, is pleased to announce its Seventh
International Colloquium. The colloquium will meet at the Charles H.
Wright Museum of African American History, on March 31st - April, 1st,
2006.
Theme: LAFANMI-A SANBLE: RELIJYON AFRIK-GINEN RASANBLE
Family Resemblances: African-derived Religions Meet
Topics:
Theology, literature, comparative approaches, historical formations,
philosophy, rituals, healing, performing arts, food, gender and sexuality,
independent devotees (outside established houses, terreiros or hounfo).
African religions and systems of spirituality are global and
transnational in their scope and impact. KOSANBA desires to
address the similarities, the differences, the continuities and
discontinuities, the cross-pollination, the adaptations that have allowed
African-derived religions and spiritual systems to survive in the context
of the Americas.
Please join us on Friday, March 31st and Saturday, April 1st, 2006
in Detroit, Michigan.
Telephone for KOSANBA:
313.494.5816
(Messages shall be checked twice daily)
ref. Mr. Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson